Such a Beautiful Sunny Day: Jews Seeking Refuge in the Polish Countryside, 1942–1945 is a 2016 book by Polish historian Barbara Engelking. It was first published in Polish in 2012. It focuses on the subject matter of The Holocaust in Poland.
Reception
In a review of Engelking's book Such a Beautiful Sunny Day: Jews Seeking Refuge in the Polish Countryside, 1942–1945 (2016), first published in Polish in 2012, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe wrote that it challenged the German tendency to neglect non-German Holocaust perpetrators, as well as the Polish tendency to view Poles in German-occupied Poland solely as victims.[1]
In 2013 historian Samuel Kassow described Engelking's work and that of three other scholars (Jan Grabowski, Alina Skibińska, and Dariusz Libionka) as a "historical achievement of the first order", undermining "the self-serving myths about Polish-Jewish relations in World War II".[2]
References
- ^ Rossolinski-Liebe, Grzegorz (18 April 2012). "Sammelrezension: Polnische Beteiligung am Holocaust" [Collective review: Polish participation in the Holocaust]. H-Soz-Kult (in German). Retrieved 1 December 2018.
- ^ Kassow, Samuel (2013). "Essay review of: Jan Grabowski, Judenjagd, B. Engelking, Jest Taki Piekny Sloneczny dzien and B. Engelking and J. Grabowski, Zarys Krajobrazu". Yad Vashem Studies. v. 41 (1): 216–217.